PPI board meeting Wednesday, June 2nd
All are welcome to PPI’s monthly board meeting Wednesday, June 2nd. Find us at BigBlueButton. An audio alternative is @PiratesOnAir’s live stream. Meeting times are: 05:00pm CEST 03:00pm UTC 11:00am EST
Invitation
INVITATION: SUMMER GA 2021!
Dear Pirates, As we move further into 2021 we believe it is time for our mid-year General Assembly. We would like the opportunity to meet with our members and check in with one another about what we have been up to since the end of last year. We are excited to invite you to our early-Summer General Assembly, which will take place on Saturday, July 3rd, 2021! The event will begin at 09:00 UTC (11:00 CEST) and will be held entirely online using Mumble, just like last time: mumble.ppi.rocks, port 64738. Scroll down and click on the room “PPI Board,” and then another room called “Online GA.” This will be …
Upcoming discussion: Membership data systems
Dear Pirates, Join us this Sunday, April 25th at 17:00 UTC/19:00 CEST to discuss the management of Pirate Party membership data. We will meet in the PPI Big Blue Button room: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v A few questions to get the discussion going: -How does your party manage its membership data? What tool(s) do you use? -What is needed to have a secure and effective management system? In other words, what do you consider “best practices”? -What sorts of laws must you keep in mind when it comes to membership data (ex.GDPR)? -Do you see any potential benefits to having a decentralized, member-controlled system at the international level? If so, what does that …
PPI April 2021 social: Pirate cookout!
Hello Pirates! This weekend we invite you to join us for our monthly social, commonly known as “Pirate Beer”. When: Saturday, April 24th at 17:30 UTC/19:30 CEST Where: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v As you can see, we’ve decided to start this one a little bit early, at 17:30 UTC/19:30 CEST. To keep with the recent trend of mixing things up at our socials, some folks have decided to get together early and hold a cookout! In other words, we will be cooking food together before we start evening drinks, just for the fun of it. So find something delicious to cook, perhaps a traditional meal from your country (or something completely different!), and …
PPI February Social–Online BarCamp!
Hey Pirates! As you are all aware, the last weekend of every month is PPI Social time (also lovingly called ‘Pirate Beer’). This month we would like to switch things up a little bit. Instead of meeting up to informally socialize, we would like to invite you all to an online BarCamp! When: Saturday, February 27th @ 20:00 UTC/21:00 CET Where: https://www.airmeet.com/e/2a1edee0-70e5-11eb-a7e5-8352699d9e45 What is a BarCamp, you ask? According to BarCamp.org: “BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the …
Campaigning during COVID-19: First SCENE meeting of 2021!
Dear Pirates, Now that the holidays are officially over, it is time to get back to work! We are excited to announce the first PPI Standing Committee meeting of 2021, which will be the Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement, aka SCENE! This committee is all about campaigning, outreach and public relations in the Pirate movement. The topic for this meeting will be ‘Campaigning during COVID-19‘. When: Wednesday, February 3rd @ 18:00 UTC/19:00 CET Where: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v We do not need to tell you that we are still in the midst of a deadly global pandemic with many countries and regions in lockdown. However, 2021 is also a big election year …
LIVE Presidential Election Night coverage brought to you by the United States and Massachusetts Pirate Parties on Tuesday, November 3rd!
November 3rd Election Night start time begins at: 8:00pm EST / 1:00am UTC / 2:00am CET UPDATE There’s a new streaming link for the election night coverage tonight brought by @USPirates and @MassPirates. When they had tested the stream link before, it had counted as having been recorded which got it to be automatically deleted. James tells me all links now including on the press release on the website I wrote have all been fixed with the new YouTube streaming link included. https://youtu.be/woXE4Q943aM https://blog.pirate-party.us/live-presidential-election-night-coverage-brought-to-you-by-the-united-states-and-massachusetts-pirate-parties-on-tuesday-november-3rd-2/ 8:00pm EST / 1:00am UTC / 2:00am CET ++++ A Pirate Take On The 2020 U.S. Election The United States and Massachusetts Pirate Parties would …
Invite: SCULL Meeting #4, Internal Party Structure and Management
Hello again, Pirates! It’s time for another SCULL meeting, aka, the PPI Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour! We happily invite you to the 4th SCULL meeting this year. When: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 at 18:30 UTC/20:30 CEST/14:30 EDT. Where: Big Blue Button https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v We look forward to continuing the conversation about the everyday work that goes into running a Pirate Party. In the past, we’ve discussed tech, graphics, and design, democracy tools, and now we would like to talk to you about internal party structure and management. We want to know how you manage things in your party–what are the positions, what do they mean, and who …
Invitation: SCURVY meeting #2!
Invitation to the Second Meeting of the Pirate Parties International Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY) We would like to invite you to the second meeting of PPI‘s SCURVY to be conducted online, Thursday, August 27th, 2020 from 19:00 – 21:00 CEST in Big Blue Button – https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v Who should attend: international coordinators, finance officers. We have initiated the SCURVY meetings this year with the goal to foster cooperation among PPI’s members. This standing committee aims to extend direct communications not only between international coordinators of Pirate Parties, but also between actual subject matter experts. The upcoming SCURVY session will focus primarily on finance topics: membership …
Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL), Meeting #3 – Democracy Tools
Dear Pirates, We are happy to announce the third meeting of the Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour, aka SCULL! When: Wednesday, July 22nd at 18:00 UTC/20:00 CEST Where: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v If you have been to a SCULL meeting before, you know that this is a standing committee focusing on inter-party cooperation and the day to day work of a running a Pirate Party. The first SCULL meeting was centered around information technology, while the second meeting topic was graphics and design which resulted in a new PPI graphics vault that all Pirates can connect to through Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks. The topic for this meeting is Democracy …